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Conclusion
The purpose to write this chapter is to wrap up the analysis and findings in order to provide the
answers of the research questions.
Operational risk from a business perspective is most commonly defined as a risk which comes
through the production of goods and the services given to the clients of a financial organization.
During our research, we found that different authors have defined different types of operational
risk related to information security. But after analyzing we conclude that operational risks related
to information security in a financial organization are virus attacks, backup failures (loss of data),
inappropriate operational procedures, unauthorized use, and dependency on external personnel
such as vendors, user error, network damages, and destructive hacks such as Distributed Denial
of Service attacks.
One of the main motivations to underlie this research was to boost the financial organizations to
follow the efficient and effective procedures in order to reduce the probability of operational
risks. Since high probability of operational risks can affect the business to a great extent. As we
have seen earlier that many financial organizations experienced huge losses in their business
because those organizations were not able to properly manage their operational risks. These
operational risks can cause a financial organization to have financial losses, reputation losses or
even operational risks can demolish the business of a financial organization. Therefore to gain
success in the business, financial organizations need to reduce the exposure of the operational
risk.
In the beginning of our research, we assumed that top management is not intricate in the process
of operational risk management and information risk management. But after pinning down the
analysis we conclude that top management is well involved and committed concerning these
processes. They are well aware of the fact that no financial organization can get success in the
business if they don‟t show their commitment and interest in order to reduce the exposure of
operational risk related to information security. So, to reduce the exposure of the operational
risks related to information security, top management show their interest in adopting new ways
and policies to enhance information security. Based on our research work we are able to
conclude that there are various techniques which can be used to enhance information security
which are access control policy, email usage policy, internet usage policy, system usage policy,
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password management policy, and incident handling policy. A financial organization can use
these polices in order to minimize operational risks and to enhance their information security
management system.
The industry of operational risk management is growing because operational risk management is
still immature. Through creating a culture of awareness for operational risk management,
financial organizations can enhance their abilities in order to attain their objectives, to improve
the technology, and to improve the efficiency of the processes. It would lead financial
organizations to get higher profits, minimize losses, and enhanced customer satisfaction.